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Originally Posted by Neyvaa
I didn't understand the rasion d'erte and I had to scroll down to the second translation to really understand what it meant. I'm not a native speaker of English and even though I've studied English at the university that phrase is something I've never heard. I guess you need to be a native speaker to know about it.
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It's actually a literary/psychological term borrowed from the French 'raison d'être,' so the average English speaker may not know of it either.